Constructor growth playbook

Move the page to constructor.com/compare with current analyst placements only, one willingness-to-recommend figure with its source and date, and the "70+ A/B tests, never lost" record stated with how the tests were run. Add short pages for Algolia, Bloomreach, Coveo and Netcore Unbxd, each with when to choose them, when to choose Constructor, and a Proof Schedule offer.

The new Director of Product Marketing owns competitive positioning and sales enablement "on key launches and competitors". Fixing the page that already ranks for the comparison is the fastest win and gives AEs one link to send.

Title: Constructor vs <Rival> for enterprise ecommerce search
1. Who <Rival> is a good fit for (one honest paragraph)
2. Where Constructor differs: KPI-optimized ranking, glassbox AI, offsite and agents
3. The test record: how head-to-head A/B tests are run, how many, what was measured
4. Customer proof: one story from a retailer that switched
5. Migration: the integration steps and typical timeline ("8 weeks or less")
6. Run a Proof Schedule on your own data (CTA)

• Comparative claims draw objections from rivals

  State test conditions and keep each claim sourced and dated.

• Analyst citation rules

  Use each firm's required wording and current report names only.

• Your websiteThe competitor page sits on info.constructor.com, outside the main sitemap. It says Constructor has "been through over 70 A/B tests against competitors and have never lost one" against Algolia, Bloomreach, Coveo and Netcore Unbxd, but still cites a Forrester "Strong Performer" (Q3 2023) and a Gartner "Visionary" placement next to the 2026 Leader badges, and gives both 92% and 95% for willingness to recommend.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source
• HiringDirector of Product Marketing (posted July 23, 2026): a hands-on role to "define what makes Constructor genuinely different", own positioning and messaging, run launches with a "bill of materials" for each (value proposition, personas, objection handling, competition), and enable sales "on key launches and competitors". The post says the platform is "powerful, technically sophisticated and constantly evolving" and needs someone to "bring clarity to that complexity".Source
• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source

A ledger page listing every competitive A/B test that can be shared: vertical, region, incumbent category (not named where contracts forbid it), test length, traffic split, the KPI and the result, plus the method. Each row links to a Split/Test Digest write-up where one exists.

Buyers in 6–7 figure deals have heard "best AI" from every vendor; a checkable record turns the claim into evidence and gives the RVP's team something to forward to procurement.

• A future loss becomes public

  Publish every result, including ties; credibility comes from completeness.

• Customer confidentiality

  Anonymize by default and get written approval for names.

• HiringThe job posts describe the company differently: some say Constructor "was founded in 2015", others that it "has been in the market since 2019" or "Launched in 2019"; one ends "For more, visit: com." The posts also claim the engine has "never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology", serves "over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries", and that the company is "approximately doubling year over year".Source
• Your websiteThe competitor page sits on info.constructor.com, outside the main sitemap. It says Constructor has "been through over 70 A/B tests against competitors and have never lost one" against Algolia, Bloomreach, Coveo and Netcore Unbxd, but still cites a Forrester "Strong Performer" (Q3 2023) and a Gartner "Visionary" placement next to the 2026 Leader badges, and gives both 92% and 95% for willingness to recommend.Source
• Your websiteSplit/Test Digest (January 17, 2025): one of Constructor's largest beauty customers ran more than 20 email campaigns testing Constructor email recommendations against its legacy email recommendations tool. At a 50/50 split: sales +322%, orders +200%, click rate +33%, conversion +23%. The retailer had first bought Constructor for onsite recommendations.Source
• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source

Write one fact sheet (founding year, launch year, founders, scale figures with dates, customers that may be named, analyst placements) and use it for every job post template, the About page, press boilerplate and the LinkedIn page. Fix the broken link text in the post templates.

Consistency is cheap and buyers notice when a vendor's own numbers disagree; this also feeds the comparison and ledger pages.

• Scale numbers go stale

  Every number carries "as of" and a quarterly review.

• HiringThe job posts describe the company differently: some say Constructor "was founded in 2015", others that it "has been in the market since 2019" or "Launched in 2019"; one ends "For more, visit: com." The posts also claim the engine has "never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology", serves "over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries", and that the company is "approximately doubling year over year".Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source

A packaged offer for current customers: connect the ESP, run Constructor recommendations on 30% of three campaigns against the current tool, report the results, then propose the move. Start with retailers whose onsite recommendations already perform well.

The test structure already worked once, starting small at 30/70 lowers the risk for the email team, and the onsite data is already flowing.

• A weak first result

  Start with broadcast campaigns, as the beauty retailer did, and add triggered flows after.

• Email team ownership

  Bring the CRM owner in at the start, not after the onsite team agrees.

• Your websiteSplit/Test Digest (January 17, 2025): one of Constructor's largest beauty customers ran more than 20 email campaigns testing Constructor email recommendations against its legacy email recommendations tool. At a 50/50 split: sales +322%, orders +200%, click rate +33%, conversion +23%. The retailer had first bought Constructor for onsite recommendations.Source
• HiringOmnichannel Recommendations GTM Specialist: "a foundational member" who owns "the activation, performance, and revenue growth of our AI-powered email recommendations offering": ESP integrations, feed setup, promotional, abandonment, post-purchase and lifecycle emails, and "revenue growth across a portfolio of customers through upsell, expansion, and new use cases". Incentive-based pay.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source

Run the Search Audit on 50 target accounts' public sites for their top gift and seasonal queries ("gifts for dad", "ugly sweater", size and color queries), and send each a two-page result: three queries that fail, what a shopper sees, and the revenue at risk using their own category. Offer a Proof Schedule in January when traffic data is richest.

The audit gives AEs a reason to call that is about the prospect's peak, not Constructor's product, and it starts January Proof Schedules when deal cycles begin.

• Pointing out failures annoys some buyers

  Frame each as a quick fix, sent privately, never posted.

• Teams are frozen in peak season

  Ask for January, not now.

• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source
• Your websiteThe Proof Schedule: free, 2–4 weeks; install a beacon ("two lines of code") and upload the catalog, Constructor collects anonymous behavioral data for 2–3 weeks, then presents "a business case with the lifts you can expect" and search insights to use immediately.Source
• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source

Use "Constructor, AI product discovery for ecommerce" consistently in titles, press boilerplate and profiles; claim and fill Wikidata, Crunchbase and the Google knowledge panel; ask partners to link with the full phrase; and keep the old constructor.io links redirecting.

A brand that is also a common word needs its category attached to be found, especially by AI assistants building an answer about vendors.

• Slow to change

  Entity data takes weeks to update; measure monthly.

• programmable.infoSite scan: 274 URLs in the sitemap (201 blog posts, 19 customer stories, 19 solutions, 16 Split/Test Digest posts), built on HubSpot CMS; mobile LCP 1.2s; DMARC policy "none". 36 news mentions of "constructor" in 30 days, the latest about an air-racing team called a "constructor", not the company.Source
• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source

For the three platforms with the most shared customers, a joint package: a landing page ("Constructor for <platform>"), a one-page competitor comparison for the platform's account team, two shared customer stories, a joint webinar per quarter, and a deal registration path.

Platform sellers are in every replatforming conversation, and replatforming is when search is replaced.

• Platforms push their own search

  Lead with use cases where the platform's native search falls short.

• HiringSenior Partner Marketing Manager (Remote, Texas): build partner programs that "generate real demand" across North America, APAC and LATAM, make Constructor "the partner's first recommendation to their customers", report partner KPIs tied to pipeline and revenue, and run joint programs with hyperscalers (AWS), platforms (Shopify, Salesforce) and consultancies (Accenture, Deloitte).Source
• Your websitePartners page: technology partners including Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, VTEX, SCAYLE, Elastic Path, Stripe, Braze, Movable Ink, Akeneo, Contentful and AWS, each with a connector; only six agency partners are listed (Convert Digital, Hyghstreet, Open Imagination, Overdose Digital, Pixel, Smith Commerce).Source
• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source

A partner program for the region: a two-day certification for integrator developers, a referral fee on the first deal, a co-branded case study once live, a German-language partner page, and joint events around DMEXCO and NRF Europe.

In DACH, integrators often decide the stack for mid-market and enterprise replatforming projects; a certified bench also shortens the "8 weeks or less" setup.

• Partners certify but never sell

  Tie the referral fee and listing to an active opportunity within 90 days.

• HiringRegional Partnerships Manager, UK/DACH: establish and grow the partner ecosystem of systems integrators, agencies and ISVs in the UK and DACH to "drive revenue and expand market reach". Alongside it: a Sales Engineer (DACH), Senior Customer Success Managers for DACH, the Nordics and French-speaking accounts, and an Account Manager for the UK and Nordics.Source
• Your websitePartners page: technology partners including Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, VTEX, SCAYLE, Elastic Path, Stripe, Braze, Movable Ink, Akeneo, Contentful and AWS, each with a connector; only six agency partners are listed (Convert Digital, Hyghstreet, Open Imagination, Overdose Digital, Pixel, Smith Commerce).Source
• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source

Run a design-partner beta with ten customers: pick long-tail queries with demand and no matching category page, generate governed landing pages from Constructor results, and measure organic sessions and revenue in Search Console and GA4. Publish the anonymized results.

Ecommerce SEO budgets are larger than site search budgets in many retailers, and a measured organic lift is a second buyer (the SEO team) for the same platform.

• Thin pages hurt rankings

  Publish only where the results are useful and unique; noindex the rest.

• Search engine policy changes

  Follow Google's guidance on scaled content and keep humans in review.

• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• programmable.infoSite scan: 274 URLs in the sitemap (201 blog posts, 19 customer stories, 19 solutions, 16 Split/Test Digest posts), built on HubSpot CMS; mobile LCP 1.2s; DMARC policy "none". 36 news mentions of "constructor" in 30 days, the latest about an air-racing team called a "constructor", not the company.Source
• Your websiteSplit/Test Digest (January 17, 2025): one of Constructor's largest beauty customers ran more than 20 email campaigns testing Constructor email recommendations against its legacy email recommendations tool. At a 50/50 split: sales +322%, orders +200%, click rate +33%, conversion +23%. The retailer had first bought Constructor for onsite recommendations.Source

For each customer with enough traffic, estimate sponsored-product revenue from search and browse placements at conservative fill and price, show it in their QBR, and offer a pilot with their top five brands.

Retail media is new profit for a retailer, not a cost line, which changes the renewal conversation.

• Ads hurt relevance

  Cap sponsored slots and show relevance metrics next to revenue.

• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source
• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source

For the top 100 accounts, a demo using the prospect's public catalog and real queries: their category page, their search, their worst query fixed. Send it as a private link before the first meeting, then turn it into a Proof Schedule.

Seeing your own products ranked better is more persuasive than any case study and gives champions something to show internally.

• Using a prospect's catalog without permission

  Public data only, private links, and deletion on request.

• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• Your websiteThe Proof Schedule: free, 2–4 weeks; install a beacon ("two lines of code") and upload the catalog, Constructor collects anonymous behavioral data for 2–3 weeks, then presents "a business case with the lifts you can expect" and search insights to use immediately.Source
• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source

A public checklist: product attributes complete enough for questions, answers to the top pre-purchase questions on product pages, structured data, checkout inside the conversation. Each item links to the Agentic Audit.

A practical checklist gets shared inside retail teams, and the audit is the natural next step.

• Agentic hype fatigue

  Keep it concrete: attributes, answers, checkout.

• Your websiteAgentic products: an AI Shopping Agent, a Product Insights Agent and a Merchant Intelligence Agent, and a Constructor + Stripe "Agentic Checkout" page where shoppers pay with Stripe Checkout and Link inside the agent conversation.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source
• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source

A reference program: a named reference per vertical and region, a review request at each successful QBR, a small thank-you, and a reference calendar so no customer is asked too often.

References close long enterprise cycles, and regional references are what new markets lack.

• Reference fatigue

  Cap calls per customer each quarter.

• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source
• HiringRegional Partnerships Manager, UK/DACH: establish and grow the partner ecosystem of systems integrators, agencies and ISVs in the UK and DACH to "drive revenue and expand market reach". Alongside it: a Sales Engineer (DACH), Senior Customer Success Managers for DACH, the Nordics and French-speaking accounts, and an Account Manager for the UK and Nordics.Source
• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source

A launch kit for B2B: a part-number and spec search demo, the three stories as a bundle, a webinar with one customer, and outbound to distributors on the same commerce platforms.

A clear B2B story uses proof Constructor already has and opens a vertical where the buyer feels search pain daily.

• Long B2B cycles

  Lead with the Proof Schedule on their own catalog.

• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source
• HiringDirector of Product Marketing (posted July 23, 2026): a hands-on role to "define what makes Constructor genuinely different", own positioning and messaging, run launches with a "bill of materials" for each (value proposition, personas, objection handling, competition), and enable sales "on key launches and competitors". The post says the platform is "powerful, technically sophisticated and constantly evolving" and needs someone to "bring clarity to that complexity".Source
• Your websitePartners page: technology partners including Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, VTEX, SCAYLE, Elastic Path, Stripe, Braze, Movable Ink, Akeneo, Contentful and AWS, each with a connector; only six agency partners are listed (Convert Digital, Hyghstreet, Open Imagination, Overdose Digital, Pixel, Smith Commerce).Source

Spanish and Portuguese versions of the homepage, Proof Schedule and two stories; a joint VTEX webinar; and a target list of large VTEX retailers in Brazil and Mexico.

A partner-led entry is cheaper than cold outbound in a new region, and local-language pages are table stakes for retailers there.

• Spreading the team thin

  One partner and two countries first.

• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source
• Your websitePartners page: technology partners including Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, VTEX, SCAYLE, Elastic Path, Stripe, Braze, Movable Ink, Akeneo, Contentful and AWS, each with a connector; only six agency partners are listed (Convert Digital, Hyghstreet, Open Imagination, Overdose Digital, Pixel, Smith Commerce).Source
• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source

A quarterly, anonymized benchmark: zero-result rates, search conversion versus browse, the share of natural-language queries, and the rise of agent conversations, by vertical and region. Each retailer gets its own private comparison; the public report gets press and analyst attention.

A benchmark becomes the number buyers and analysts quote, and the private comparison is a reason for customers to expand and prospects to start a Proof Schedule.

• Customer data concerns

  Aggregate, publish minimum group sizes and let customers opt out.

• HiringThe job posts describe the company differently: some say Constructor "was founded in 2015", others that it "has been in the market since 2019" or "Launched in 2019"; one ends "For more, visit: com." The posts also claim the engine has "never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology", serves "over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries", and that the company is "approximately doubling year over year".Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source
• Your websiteSplit/Test Digest (January 17, 2025): one of Constructor's largest beauty customers ran more than 20 email campaigns testing Constructor email recommendations against its legacy email recommendations tool. At a 50/50 split: sales +322%, orders +200%, click rate +33%, conversion +23%. The retailer had first bought Constructor for onsite recommendations.Source

A self-serve version: sign up, add the beacon, upload the catalog, and receive an automated business case after three weeks, with a sales call only if the projected lift passes a threshold.

It lets the same proof reach retailers below the enterprise line without adding AEs, and qualifies demand before a person spends time on it.

• Weak data produces weak cases

  Require minimum traffic before the case is generated.

• Your websiteThe Proof Schedule: free, 2–4 weeks; install a beacon ("two lines of code") and upload the catalog, Constructor collects anonymous behavioral data for 2–3 weeks, then presents "a business case with the lifts you can expect" and search insights to use immediately.Source
• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• HiringRVP, Enterprise Sales: leads a team of Enterprise AEs on "9 - 12 month deal cycles" closing "6 and 7 figure deals", "building consensus across multiple business units". Also open: an Enterprise AE (marketing technology experience preferred), a LATAM Account Director, and a US Account Manager who runs "enterprise renewal and upsell cycles".Source

Once ten retailers run retail media, offer brands a single buy across them by category (pet, beauty, home), with retailer consent, revenue share and shared reporting.

It creates a second customer (brands) and makes Constructor harder to replace for the retailers earning from it.

• Retailers compete for the same brands

  Retailer opt-in per campaign and transparent reporting.

• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• Your websiteCustomer stories cover Petco, Bonobos, Belk, home24, Target Australia, Pick n Pay, flaschenpost, Grove Collaborative, Chubbies, Princess Auto, Cromwell and Fisheries Supply. The events page lists Shoptalk Fall, DMEXCO, Groceryshop, NRF Europe, eTail Boston, eCom Forum Brazil and Online Retailer in 2026.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source

For qualified enterprise prospects, a written promise: if Constructor does not beat the incumbent on the agreed KPI in a proper A/B test, Constructor pays for the test's costs or donates a fixed amount. Terms define traffic, duration and KPI.

It answers the buyer's real fear (wasted months) and makes the claim impossible to ignore.

• Paying out on a loss

  Cap the amount; a loss is cheaper than the credibility gained.

• Your websiteThe competitor page sits on info.constructor.com, outside the main sitemap. It says Constructor has "been through over 70 A/B tests against competitors and have never lost one" against Algolia, Bloomreach, Coveo and Netcore Unbxd, but still cites a Forrester "Strong Performer" (Q3 2023) and a Gartner "Visionary" placement next to the 2026 Leader badges, and gives both 92% and 95% for willingness to recommend.Source
• HiringThe job posts describe the company differently: some say Constructor "was founded in 2015", others that it "has been in the market since 2019" or "Launched in 2019"; one ends "For more, visit: com." The posts also claim the engine has "never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology", serves "over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries", and that the company is "approximately doubling year over year".Source
• Your websiteThe Proof Schedule: free, 2–4 weeks; install a beacon ("two lines of code") and upload the catalog, Constructor collects anonymous behavioral data for 2–3 weeks, then presents "a business case with the lifts you can expect" and search insights to use immediately.Source

An opt-in endpoint that lets approved AI assistants query a retailer's Constructor index (ranking, availability, attributes) and hand off to Stripe checkout, with the retailer's rules applied.

If shoppers move to assistants, the vendor whose ranking those assistants use keeps its place in the journey.

• Assistants' rules change

  Keep the endpoint standard and retailer-controlled.

• Your websiteAgentic products: an AI Shopping Agent, a Product Insights Agent and a Merchant Intelligence Agent, and a Constructor + Stripe "Agentic Checkout" page where shoppers pay with Stripe Checkout and Link inside the agent conversation.Source
• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source

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  Keep it short and tied to real dashboards.

• HiringProduct and engineering hires that point at new revenue lines: a designer for the AI Agent Tools team ("define what agentic shopping looks like", working with "Agent Orchestrators"), a backend engineer for Offsite Search Optimisation (SEO fundamentals, GA4 and the Google Search Analytics API), a new Retail Media team building a dashboard for retailers and brands, a FullStack Engineer for Prospect UI Solutions who works with "prospective customers" and account executives (web scraping a plus), and a Customer Onboarding PM measured on reducing integration time-to-value. Four integration roles were posted on October 16, 2026.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Search & Product Discovery 2026, The Forrester Wave Q3 2025 and the IDC MarketScape ("the only product discovery vendor named a Leader by 3 independent analyst firms"); "+400 Billion requests powered per year", "8 Weeks or less to set up", "98.5% avg client retention rate over the last three years", G2 4.8 and Gartner Peer Reviews 4.9. Petco: a 13% lift in ecommerce conversions. Two offers: a Search Audit and an Agentic Audit.Source